A nervous rush is flowing through my body. The adrenaline is buzzing just in time. My heart continues to pulsate as I finally reach my goal. The front of the crowd, sticky, hot, breathless. Every moment that has led up to this one drifts behind me and melts away. The first note plays then transforms into several more, and my ears immediately enter a state of symphonic harmony. At first, I feel like I can’t move, but then I begin to let the vibrations of the music control my body. His smooth voice and the steady drone of the cello let my body know that it is okay to express what I am feeling inside. The blue, pink and purple lights shimmer down onto my face as if they are trying to tell me why I am here. The lights and the pulse of the music remind me of why I am living in the moment.

This moment is sweet, yet so bitter. My nose is tingling and I start to feel burning in the back of my eyes. I want to hold them in, but I can’t. One by one they start rolling out of my eyes and into my mouth. The salt water rests on my tongue and slowly dissolves as everything in my vision blurs together as one. The lights, the cellist, the lead singer, the drummer and the bassist; everything. It’s all so alluring that I feel renewed. The tears clean out my soul and all of the old energy that couldn’t be released before. Refreshed, I look up from the chaos and screaming and shoving that is going on in front of me. And there he is, just gracefully looking into my eyes like he knows the secret. The passion in his voice, the deep blue of his eyes told me he knew.

Without his eyes leaving mine, I started to see his lips move, and the lyrics “but with you, I feel again” poured from his mouth like a waterfall. I was suddenly unable to breathe. And when the air finally traveled back to my lungs, it hit me. Life is about restarting, it’s about renewing your soul and your inner being. Every moment we are living in refreshes us. We let the fresh air in, and the lifeless air out. And that’s why living in the present is so important. As humans, we are always wondering about what is happening next, or dwelling on what already happened. If everyone would just take in what is going on around them in the present moment, then every moment would be breathtaking.